The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-30

w present herewith 20 view Of the
l'iutf institute building just erected in
Brooklyn. X. Y. in furtherance Of the
same idea Of a combined mental and in
du,trM training Mr. Charles Pratt
donor Of tie funds for this Institution,
admits taat hc has not fully matured bis
piau~. That the work must be expert
mental at first. with the managers ready
70 ado0t whatever experience approves;
bat li, intent is plaus TO give young
people thoroughly practical education,
cultivation of mind, heart and hand.
making them polite and intelligent work
ers The building is on Ryerson street,
near Delialb avenue, six stories high and
substantially built in the Renaissance
style of architecture. Besides the usual
engine and boiler rooms, cooking eating
and living rooms, Offices and assembly
ro0ms-all completed and furnished witha
view TO the most economic wOrNng-there
are machine and repair shops, founding
and forging labor atOries, tool. carpenter
and wood turning rooms. and many Others
for practical work. There are also several
large rooms not yet ASST ned to any special
departments. They may be for study,
a gymnasium social meetings or some
branch of manual labor not yet agreed
upon The most Important room at
present Is the machine tool laboratory,
which has an area of SJX37 feet Above
it, OF the same size is the carpenters and
wood turner's room. The founding room
has an area OF 29x73 feet. The art de-
partment has very eommodious rooms, in
which are ID be taught mechanical, archi-
fac;ural and freehand drawing.
The design Of this institute. as stated in
the charter is ITO afford such instruction
as shall best enable men and women o.
earn their own living by applied knOwl-
edge. The membership is nominal-but
$40 year This Is Air. pratt's third
great gift TO Brooklyn, the first
being 100000 TO the Emanuel Baptist
church, and tho second the same amount
TO the Ad,lphi academy This manual
training school has been in contemplation
for some time, the execution being delayed
because many other cities were expert
mentiug and il was wen 20 await the re-
suits The present plan of manual train
ing is but thing Of yesterday; and 1t Is
very curious fact that il was first prac-
ticalizcd in semi-barbari0us Russia in
1868 I'm 1876 the exhibit Of the plan at
the Philadelphia Centennial excited great
interest in the United States, and DR..
John ID. Runkle, president Of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, pub
iishcd an elaborate report on the matter,
with recommendations Soon after man
ual training schools were established sue
ceseiycly in Boston, ST. Louis New Haven,
Omaha, and thereafter in many places
simultaneously The most complete Of
all is in Chicago; but many other places
are pushing for the front. Among those
who have written in detail OH the advan-
tages Of such SCHOOLS are Charles Francis
Adams and Professor Felix Adler
America is fast becoming the land par
excellence of educational institutions. All
over the land new and splendid colleges,
or, as they are generously termed, univer-
sites. are springing up. One might think
TINT the establishment of so many high
class schools would tend TO impair the
prosperity of the older institutions; but
Harvard, and Yale, and Ann Arbof, and
Johns Hopkins. and the rest Of them 90 on
inst the same, with ever increasing lists
of students.
The latest college is the new Clark uni
yersitv. the corner stone Of which was
laiu WIN Impressive NN''''-"---'' ''N
Worcester. Mass, recently.
The history of the institution is all COM
prised within the present year. Mr..
Jonas G. Clark, a gentleman Of great
wealth. native of Ilubbardston, near
Worcester. who is now u resident Of that
city, announced last January his mten-
ton of founding a university, 10 be located
upon land owned by him in The town OF
bis residence. He associated with himself